"Jew Suss" Starts This Week: Famous Novel Dramatised

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 1 March 1935, Page 18

"Jew Suss" Starts This Week: Famous Novel Dramatised

N to-day's ‘‘Radio Record"’ we present for the first time in a New Zealand paper a radio play in print -and a radio play of no less a book than "Jew Suss,"" the world-famous story by Lion Feuchtwanger, This play, which makes engrossing reading, was adapted for broadcasting by

obert Waldron, and has been performed from several well-known broadcasting stations in other parts of the world. The script of the play closely follows,that of the GaumontBritish film version of "‘Jew Suss,’’ the English picture which cost more than £100,000 to make. The stasrs are Conrad Veidt (pictured here), who plays Jew Suss, Benita Hume, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sir Gerald du Maurier. "Jew Suss"’ will have its New Zealand premiere in Wellington at the end of this month. The illustrations appearing with the serial are actual scenes from the film,